Subj : Re: Big problem, please help...
To   : Cunac <cunac@inet.hr>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Nov 18 2003 03:32 pm

Cunac wrote:

>>I don't know how you will do it -- please don't hack the engine, thereby
>>creating a non-standard and incompatible dialect of the language.
>>
>>If the global object (the last object on the parent-linked scope chain)
>>is not where variables go, then what does go there?  If you wish to
>>share standard classes (Date, RegExp, etc.), consider linking to a
>>"superglobal" via the proto, not the parent, slot.
>>    
>>
>
>No prob. There are several ideas, for example copying global objects in
>local scope  and returning values, or disconnection of scope chain, maybe
>using ObjectOps, etc. I'll manage something. Thnx.
>  
>

Ok, glad it wasn't a big problem after all.

I think you might do best by using the proto chain, not the parent 
chain, and avoid copying, or hacking object ops.

/be

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